Overseer Ob (22nd @ Worlds 2022/1st @ CoS 2022)

I told myself I wasn't going to play this deck in the main event at Worlds. I told myself it had an unwinnable Wu matchup, and it would just be for Crown of Servers. I would play NAC Sports or NAC PD in the main event, like a sensible person.

The deck went 5-0 in CoS, and we somehow managed to win the event. Like so many other players have in the past, I made the last minute decision to play it in the main event, against my better judgement.

It ended up working out pretty well. It went 4-1 in the swiss, before losing in the tiebreaker round to tf34's masterful Freedom performance. If I had known the largest testing clique in North America were all going to bring Freedom, I would not have played Ob, but alas.

The copies of Overseer Matrix were interesting all weekend long, occasionally being low impact but frequently being quite good. I never had to play against Apocalypse, which was the main matchup I wanted them in the deck for. Bridgeman's Ob is such a well known deck that I felt at least some changes were necessary in order to be competitive for this event, and the Apoc matchup is really tough even with a copy of Crisium Grid to search off Border Control pops.

A huge thank you to everyone I met at Worlds, it was an incredible experience and a wonderful event. Congratulations to Sokka for winning the event, to Whiteblade for getting a well deserved top 16, to the Snare Bears and Unband for getting half of their players into the cut, and to NSG for putting on a fantastic event. I sincerely hope next year can be even bigger and better, because you all proved this team can put on one hell of a show.

Extra special thanks to Enkoder and Tzeentchling for being fantastic teammates and great people, we did it lads!